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2026 · 2m
Directed by Alice Vaillant
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age
Every morning, Léna, 17, monopolizes the bathroom to her little brother Jordan's dismay — perfect brushing, meticulous makeup, every detail counts, and yet something is always wrong.
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A two-minute comedy about bathroom hoarding feels like the exact kind of domestic micro-narrative everyone's doing right now—but Vaillant somehow finds the strange, almost obsessive undercurrent in Léna's ritual that tips it from relatable to genuinely unsettling, which is where it gets interesting.
Vaillant locates herself in a lineage of French coming-of-age cinema concerned with the small rituals that mark adolescence, and the restraint in refusing to resolve Léna's perfectionism—just observing it tenderly—shows formal discipline.
The genius move here is the decision to keep cutting back to Léna's face in the mirror, each time something imperceptibly wrong, which transforms what could be a sitcom beat into something genuinely anxious and specific about how teenage self-image actually works.